jumpstart
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car
my battery was dead so I had to get a jumpstart from my neighbor
Types & categories
- action hypernym
Sense 2 verb
start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery
Types & categories
- start up hypernym
Sense 3 verb
start or re-start vigorously
The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process
Types & categories
- start hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | action |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | start up |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | start |